In a Beautiful World

Chapter 1

Author's note: All rights belong to the writer of the Vampire Diaries Julie Plec for this first chapter. I'll be using the dialogue from the scene where Damon gets possessed and the Enzo and Damon scenes after that , but after that this will be my original story. Thank you all for your patience and understanding and please enjoy In a Beautiful World!

After losing the love of his life, Damon Salvatore thought he couldn't lose anything else that he valued more. That statement had proven to be false. Walking through the tunnels under the building that was run by the armory, Damon knew how much danger he would be in if he ran into the beast. Luckily for him he had a back up idea.

He pulled out his phone and dialed the only other person whose voice he wanted to hear right now.

"If you think this means your forgiven-"

Damon smirked to himself glad to hear the voice of his friend Bonnie Bennett on the other line. It had worked they had finally brought her back to the old Bonnie she was before. Now all he had to do was find a way to keep her on the line, so if he got himself into trouble someone would know about it. After all Stefan and Caroline were only miles away. Surely if something went wrong Bonnie would be able to inform them. But for now all he wanted was to poke a little fun at her. Like they used to do before he betrayed her trust and abandoned her. Yeah. It wasn't one of his finer moments.

"I am so forgiven."

"You're kinda forgiven."

"Ugh would it have killed you to do it five minutes ago?" Enzo said.

Now he knew he defiantly had to joke around.

"Wait. Enzo is still alive Damn. I didn't wait long enough."

"Thank you." Bonnie said after Enzo scoffed.

He didn't want to be forgiven just yet. He needed to do more for her than just this.

"Thank me in person with a kiss and-"

Before he could finish his sentence he heard a voice call out his name. No it couldn't be hers. She was in stuck in some magical coma that a psychopath had placed on her. He had to get out of there before the worst happened.

"Damon."

There I was again. Her voice. No this couldn't be real. Could it? I mean the armory had played some nasty games with them before. Maybe. Just maybe it was really her. He yearned to touch her again to feel her again. To devour her with kisses and never let her go. He couldn't just let her go again. He wouldn't.

"Elena?" he said into the dark. It was like a miracle had happened.

"What did you just say?"

He had been so distracted by Elena he had totally forgotten that Bonnie and Enzo were on the other line. He had to tell her what was going on. Just in case- Wait what was he so afraid of again. He couldn't remember all he knew was that the love of his life was down there somewhere and she needed his help. He needed to find Elena before it was too late.

"I can hear her in the vault." He told Bonnie. Maybe she could help him.

"Damon, Elena is in a warehouse in Brooklyn." she said as if trying to convince him of something.

She was wrong Elena had to be there. He couldn't have imagined a voice that real. He didn't care if he died protecting his one true love. He had to remember that and not listen to anyone else. Maybe if he stayed there for just a little while longer he could find her and take her home with him. They could be everything they always wanted.

"I know but-"

Than the memories of being with Elena overwhelmed him. He remembered every detail about their relationship and how she would have never gave up on him if she were I n trouble. The memories started out simple enough.

He remembered the touch of her hand as they danced their final dance together. It had only been in her head, but to him it had felt so real. So genuine. And than flashed an older memory of when he had watched her sleep for the first time. He didn't know that that girl in the bed would mean the world to him at the time, but she had. She still did. Even after all these years.

He took another agonized step as he remembered the first time they gave into their feeling for each other. He remembered how good it felt and how it had felt so right. So real. Than he remembered their kiss at the alter where he had promised to become human with her. That had to be the realest emotion he had ever felt. And now he could have it again if he just kept going.

"Damon." Elena said again drawing him closer.

"What if something happened to her?"

"Help me." Elena said.

"What if the armory took her?"

"They didn't" Enzo said urgently.

"Please." Elena said again.

He didn't know what he had told Enzo because the memories were piling up on him now drawing him close to her.

"Damon! Get out of there!"

Enzo didn't know. He couldn't feel it like Damon did.

Every kiss every touch replayed in his memory. It was like a sirens call and he just couldn't stop until he found her.

"Please help me."

There it was again the voice of desperation. The voice of his girlfriend needing him just as much as he needed her. He couldn't pay attention with these noises in the background so he hung up so he could concentrate on finding her.

"I'm so Alone. I need you." she said.

If only she knew how much he needed her too. A shape passed by him in the cave. It was her. He just knew it.

"Where are you?" he said suddenly feeling hope again.

"Right here." she said more serious as if she were right behind him.

He turned around and felt instant terror only seeing the creature in front of him for a split second before his world went black.

Waking up had never hurt as much as it did when he woke up afterwards. He expected to wake up in the caves again next to whatever that creature was who attacked him, but instead all he woke up to was the sounds of birds chipping and his living room couch. Had Stefan gotten him out of the cave in time?

"I'm afraid not darling."

He jumped up and looked into the eyes of a woman whose beauty he couldn't explain. Had this been the evil that everyone had warned him about. She sure didn't look evil with her long black hair in violet eyes, but this was not how she looked like in the cave. What game was she playing?

"Who are you?" he said looking at the creature almost wishing that she would go back to her true form.

"I am many things Damon Salvatore. I am everything and nothing at all. I am you friend, your lover, and your enemy all in one. I am not someone you want to cross, but for all intents and purposes you may call me Sybil."

Damon looked at her in puzzlement. This girl must have been crazy.

"Well it was nice meeting you and all Sybil, I really have to get going. You know people to see, things to do, A fucked up world that needs saving."

She smiled and touched Damon' s arm causing him to flinch. Her touch had burned and it wasn't in a good way.

"You're under my control Damon Salvatore. You might as well get comfortable while your here."

":And what is here?"

"You'll find out soon enough. Now let's talk about your desires."

"My desires?"

"Yes forgive me, but when we were in the caves I took a little peak into your mind. Call it a hallucination of sorts. I used it to possess you."

"And why would you do that?"

"I've been in that cave for ages Damon. I just need to reek a little havoc."

"And what happened to me?"

She smiled taping on her lips as to tell him that that was all a secret.

"Let's just say your body and your mind are under my control. Everyone thinks I'm you and your friend-"

"Wait how can you possess two people at once?"

"I'm a very talented Woman Damon. I can show you if you please."

"Thanks, but I'm not that desperate, but if your in control of me, how come I'm having a conversation with you."

"You see that's the tricky part. I can't fully posses a person because the essence of their being is untouchable. I can influence their actions and other sorts, but they can break through every now and again."

"Then teach me how."

"But where's the fun in that?"

He flipped the table that was in front of them and was surprised when she didn't even flinch. Instead she laughed.

" Did you really think that would scare me? Come on Damon, you have to do better than that."

He snapped the leg off the table and was inches away from throwing it at her when she threw him into a wall instead with no more than a flick of the eyebrow.

"Poor, sweet Naive Damon. Don;t you know by now that you can't defeat me. I am you. I am everyone you know. Everyone you love. Which can either be a good or bad thing. I can hurt you or I can give you the things you desire most. The choice is yours. "

"I will never give into you."

"Oh but sweetie. You already have."

Before he could say anything the world went blank

The next time he woke up he groaned, but this time he wasn't in his house. He was in the place where all this had started. He was in the barn where Elena had-

He couldn't think of that right now. All he knew was that somehow he was himself, but not himself at the same time. How was this possible that he existed in two places. One of side of him was the side that love had won over and the other-

Oh no it was just as Stefan and Caroline had feared. This wasn't him. It was the essence of him that was left behind. The one that knew he was being possessed but couldn't do a damn thing about it. He just had to live like this. Like how Sybil wanted him to until he could find a way to stop her. But how?

"Damon?"

No it couldn't be. This was just another one of Sybil's stupid mind games that she had used to posses him. But if this wasn't real than why would Sybil bother with it in the first place? He shook his head. This couldn't be real.

"Damon? What- what are you doing here?"

He turned around. He knew he shouldn't have done it, but even if Sybil was messing with him he just wanted to see her face. He had to see her face.

It sure looked like her, but a more washed out version of her. A version of her that was more dead than alive. Her brown hair that used to be so full of life laid tangled and useless on her shoulders. Her skin that naturally glowed was now paler than usual. And her eyes. The eyes that had been so full of light and love were now lifeless. What had happened to her?

"Cut the crap Sybil. I know it's you."

Her eyebrows stitched together in confusion as she stepped closer to Damon.

"Whose Sybil. Damon it's me Elena. I don't know how you found me in this place, but I'm glad you did it's been a rough couple of years Damon. You have no clue what it's like being a living corpse in your own body."

"Actually I know about that a little too well right now."

"What happened Damon? Tell me."

"How do I know if you aren't in my head?"

Elena rolled her eyes and stepped closer to him. He almost shoved her away to protect himself, but than her lips landed on his just as real as it could ever be, but how she was supposed to be somewhere else. Anywhere else. It wasn't safe for her here.

"Elena. You have to get out of here. It's not safe."

"Damon, I'm stuck here just as much as you are."

"What is here?"

Before Elena answered, she gasped as an arrow flew into her chest. Blood poured down the front of her shirt as Damon tried but mostly failed to pull the arrow out. Elena gasped in short breaths as she coughed up blood. No this couldn't be happening again.

Damon looked up to see Sybil smiling with the bow in her hand. She had done this to Elena. How dare she?

"Oh don't worry Damon. She's fine. No once can really die here. Well not completely anyway."

He narrowed his eyes at her as he held a now dead Elena in his arms. This bitch would get what she deserved when he found a way out of this. Before he could attack Sybil Elena gasped and scrabbled to get closer to Damon. She was alright. What had just happened?

"Now that Damon is in the right state of mind again. I'm going to make you a deal. "

"What deal- What are you going to-"

Before Elena could get a word out her neck snapped and than she disappeared into thin air.

"What did you do to her?"

"It's a part of the deal."

"What deal?"

"I'm going to posses you either way whenever you want, but I need you to be reckless. To be heartless. Well at least in the real world. I can do it to you. I'll do so anyway, but I'd rather this not hurt as much. Give up Damon. Surrender yourself to me and it'll all be over."

Anger flowed through Damon as he stared at the Elena's blood that still stained the ground. He would find her again. He knew he would.

"over my dead body." he said smiling.

Damon Salvatore did not go down without a fight. Sybil smiled back at him.

"As you wish." she said and than once again his world turned black.